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Mixing Pesticide for Orchard

Date: 1920
Description: Three men in an orchard mixing up chemicals to spray the trees. One of the men is on the back of a horse-drawn wagon with a barrel. The other two men are s...
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
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Pulling Stumps with Tractor

Date: 06 23 1924
Description: Two men using what appears to be a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to "pull stumps" in an orchard on the R.R. Robertson farm.
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Man Operating a Sprayer in a Fruit Orchard

Date: 08 1923
Description: Man spraying pesticide(?) on a tree in an orchard. Original Caption: "Copy negative loaned by Niagara Sprayer Company. No negative."
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Agricultural Laborers Posing in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Four agricultural laborers posing in a field. One of the men is sitting on a horse-drawn mower, and the other three men are holding rakes.
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Man in a Field on Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1914
Description: Side view of a man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field with farm buildings in the background. The horses are wearing fly-nets and blinders.
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Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1915
Description: View from rear of a man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field.
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Man on Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1916
Description: Man in a field operating a horse-drawn mower.
Book or Pamphlet

Windrow-Baling Brochure

Date: 1941
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for balers, featuring a photograph of a man pulling a McCormick-Deering baler in a field with a Farmall A tractor.
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Foreign Harvesting Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Men with hand harvesting tools and an ox-drawn hay cart in a foreign field (possibly India?).
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Workers on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1900
Description: Workers standing in a field next to henequen or sisal plants, probably in Yucatan, Mexico.
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Mower

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Description: Man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. The horses are wearing blinders and fly-nets.
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1919
Description: Man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. The man is reaching down and holding onto a lever, and the cutting blade is up in a vertical position.
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 11 11 1925
Description: Rear view of a man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field.
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Young Boy Operating Horse-Drawn Hay Rake

Date: 1914
Description: Side view of a young boy driving a team of horses pulling a hay rake in a field.
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Men Driving Teams of Horses in a Field

Date: 1914
Description: Two men are using teams of horses to pull a hay rake on the left, and a mower on the right. There are farm buildings and cows beyond a fence in the backgr...
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Man Operating Hay Rake

Date: 1915
Description: Side view of a man wearing a straw hat operating a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. In the background are hills, fields and farm buildings.
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Man Operating Hay Rake in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Man operating a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets. There are bales of hay on a hill in the background.
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Man and Child Working in the Field

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of young child operating a horse-drawn hay rake while a man is standing nearby.
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Men Stacking Bundles of Hennequen

Date: 1900
Description: Workers stacking bundles of hennequen or sisal near a building with arches in Yucatan, Mexico. The McCormick Company and its successor International Harves...

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